Drama

• Jimi: All Is By My Side | DVD | (26/01/2015) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  OutKast’s André Benjamin stars as Jimi Hendrix in this revealing biopic from Academy Award-winning writer-director John Ridley (“12 Years A Slave”). Covering a year in Hendrix’s life from 1966-67 as an unknown backup guitarist playing New York’s Cheetah Club to making his mark in London’s music scene up until his Monterey Pop triumph the film presents an intimate portrait of the sensitive young musician on the verge of becoming a rock legend.

• Dixon of Dock Green: Collection 2 | DVD | (08/07/2013) from £16.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In this second collection the Dock Green police force under the watchful eye of old timer Sergeant Dixon played by Jack Warner come up against a mixed bag of villains with one case playing out dangerously close to home. Mercenaries on the streets of London lead to a dangerous shoot-out; an apparent suicide generates a cross-country manhunt; stolen jewels thrown into a squat provide an entry to a world of very dubious long-haired hippy spiritualism; a robbery witness brings the Dock Green police to a household where crime is a way of life; a desirable con-woman finds herself at the mercy of one of her victims; and - in a case of possible in-house corruption - 'no one likes a bent copper' as Dixon so aptly puts it. One of the longest running police series on British television from 1955 to 1976 Dixon of Dock Green set the tone for television police drama and paved the way for all that would follow. Filmed on set and on location around the disappearing dockland of London's East End the character of Dixon famous for 'Evening all' was a mainstay of British television with its friendly reliable world of coppers on the beat. Episodes Comprise: Target (15/2/75) Seven for a Secret Never to Be Told (22/2/75) Baubles Bangles and Beads (15/3/75) Looters Ltd. (29/3/75) A Slight Case of Love (19/4/75) Conspiracy (10/5/75) Special Features: Cast Filmographies Picture Gallery Subtitles

• Best Seller | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  John Flynn has directed some good, tough, pacy thrillers and Best Seller, along with the 1973 The Outfit, can claim to be the best of them. It kicks off with not one but two slam-bang action sequences and then, having grabbed our attention, pitches us straight into its twisty plot premise. Brian Dennehy, reliably watchable as ever, plays an ageing cop-turned-novelist who has hit a writer's block since his wife died. James Woods at his most suavely sinister is a hitman with dirt to dish on the head of a big corporation. Woods proposes a Faustian pact. He provides Dennehy with the full crooked story on the mobster-turned-corporate boss and the cop writes it up. Dennehy gets a best seller; Woods gets his revenge and comes out looking like a hero. The dialogue, courtesy of screenwriter and horror-movie director Larry Cohen (It's Alive; Q--The Winged Serpent), is satisfyingly hard-boiled and slips in plenty of subversive sideswipes at rampant capitalism. ("It's the American Way, Dennis," says Woods, detailing how he helped his boss rise via robbery and murder. "I'm a businessman, an executive.") This certainly isn't the only movie to get mileage out of the symbiotic relationship between cop and crook (see Michael Mann's Heat), but it works several neat variations on the theme, with Dennehy and Woods both at the top of their respective forms. If the film never quite lives up to its potential--the required final confrontation between the two principals doesn't materialise and Victoria Tennant is thrown away as Dennehy's love-interest--it remains a way better than average thriller with its roots deep in the best B-movie traditions. On the DVD: Best Seller on disc has no extras apart from the theatrical trailer. The transfer is good and clean, and preserves the original's full-width framing. --Philip Kemp

• Hustle - Series 1-5 | DVD | (11/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  The Con Is On The Con. An invisible crime built on the premise of finding someone who wants something for nothing then giving them nothing for something. Choose the mark play on their desires set them up and then reel them in.

• Kolya | DVD | (01/03/2005) from £5.25   |  Saving you £9.74 (185.52%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The perfect grouch has met his match. A five-year-old boy named Kolya... Louka a middle-aged Czech cellist is a skirt-chasing bachelor who enjoys a lifestyle free of responsibilities. When he finds himself strapped for cash he agrees to a marriage of convenience. But after his new bride skips town Louka is left to father her five-year-old Russian son Kolya. Neither could be more unhappy with their predicament especially since they don't even speak the same language! It'll take

• House! | DVD | (04/12/2000) from £7.45   |  Saving you £1.53 (34.30%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A whimsical fantasy, revolving around the world of Bingo, House (2000) was slipped innocuously into the UK’s staple cinematic diet of gangster movies and period dramas and emerged as a genuinely charismatic and immensely likeable film, blissfully content with its small-scale ambitions, not to mention lottery money well spent. Linda (Trainspotting’s Kelly MacDonald) is devoted to her job at the faltering La Scala Bingo Hall in rural Wales, which provides a welcome escape from her domineering aunt. Facing stiff competition from a rival hall, La Scala’s owner Mr. Alanzi (the wonderful Freddie Jones) is at a loss of how to save his beloved home, but Linda’s discovery of an unexpected gift could reverse their fortunes. Effortlessly charming and perfectly cast, House weaves its spirited feel-good tale with an eclectic set of characters (Jason Hughes’ flamboyant star number caller, Mossie Smith’s monstrous flirting colleague), while delivering a realistic glimpse of what makes a place special and memorable. Highly enjoyable, this is a small-scale gem.On the DVD: Director Julian Kemp delivers a competent, if sometimes rambling commentary that delivers the goods about a straightforward production. Other than six trailers, there’s the chance to glimpse Kemp’s short-film Suckers, a suitably wry and cynical look at the world of door-to-door salesmen. --Danny Graydon

• Kill The King | DVD | (14/11/2016) from £4.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Emily Browning and Luke Grimes star in this crime drama co-written and directed by Eddie O'Keefe. The film follows Karen Bird (Browning) and Jack Blueblood (Grimes), two young lovers who escape a mental institution to travel to Los Angeles in a bid to kill Elvis Presley (Ron Livingston). After coming up with the scheme following a vision from Jack's dead mother, the pair set off on their journey in the summer of 1974, vowing to murder their idol and anyone else who gets in the way. The cast also includes Ashley Greene and Avan Jogia.

• The Wee Man | Blu Ray | (08/07/2013) from £6.98   |  Saving you £13.01 (186.39%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Crime drama based on the life of Scottish gangster Paul Ferris. Martin Compston stars as Ferris, who was brought up on Glasgow's notorious Black Hill estate in the 1960s. As a young man Ferris starts out working for two rival gang bosses, The Godfather and The Snake, but after a brutal betrayal he decides to go it alone. Carving out a dangerous and bloody career defined by violence, corruption and murder, Paul 'The Wee Man' Ferris ends up becoming the most feared man in Glasgow.

• Wycliffe: The Complete Third Series | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £14.54   |  Saving you £5.45 (37.48%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Wycliffe: Series 3 (2 Discs)

• Lunch Hour | Blu Ray | (25/04/2011) from £18.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (17.66%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Shirley Anne Field gives a fiery performance as a young designer on the brink of starting an affair with a married male supervisor (Robert Stephens) at the wallpaper factory where she works. Based on the play by acclaimed writer John Mortimer (Rumpole of the Bailey) Lunch Hour is directed by James Hill (Black Beauty Born Free). With its tightly-focused plot and 'real-time' narrative this stylish examination of an illicit lunch-hour rendezvous features an underlying sexual radicalism that tells us much about the time in which it was made. Also presented here are three of James Hill's critically acclaimed and fondly remembered short films all of which have more recently garnered an appreciative fan-base amongst enthusiasts of so-called Trade Test films (which were broadcast to test the then-new colour transmission system by BBC TV engineers during the 60s and 70s).

• Claude Berri | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £23.65   |  Saving you £-8.66 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A four disc DVD box set of World Cinema classics from acclaimed French director Claude Berri. Jean De Florette (1986): French director Claude Berri's stunning adaptation of the acclaimed Marcel Pagnol novel is the winner of numerous international awards and is the world's most popular foreign language film ever. City-dweller Jean de Florette (Gerad Depardieu) moves his family to the Provence countryside in the 1920's to forge a new life as a farmer. But his proud cocky neig

• The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Blu-ray + Digital Copy) | Blu Ray | (25/06/2012) from £6.96   |  Saving you £18.03 (259.05%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A group of British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, they are forever transformed by their shared experiences, discovering that life and love can begin again when you begin to let go of the past. From the Director of Shakespeare In Love and featuring an all-star British cast, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is a charming, life affirming comedy drama about life, love and new beginnings... Special Features: Behind the Story: Lights, Colours and Smiles Four Featurettes: Casting Legends Welcome to the Real Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Trekking to India: Life is Never the Same Tuk Tuk Travels

• The Little House | DVD | (15/11/2010) from £28.66   |  Saving you £-8.67 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Little House

• Cast A Dark Shadow | DVD | (15/06/2015) from £14.98   |  Saving you £1.00 (8.34%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A clever fortune-hunter with a penchant for murder does in his elderly, supposedly rich, wife and manages to get away with it. After an investigation results in a decision of 'accidental death', our crafty killer discovers that his late wife's 'fortune' is not what he thought it was. Driven to find another unsuspecting spouse; he discovers that his new bride, a widow, is no fool. When she tells him that she intends to keep her accounts separate from his, he is driven to contemplate murder once again.

• Written On The Wind | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £16.37   |  Saving you £-6.38 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Bathed in lurid Technicolor melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk's 'Written On The Wind' is the stylishly debauched tale of a Texas oil magnate brought down by the excesses of his spoiled offspring. Features an all-star quartet that includes Robert Stack as a pistol-packin' alcoholic playboy; Lauren Bacall as his long-suffering wife; Rock Hudson as his earthy best friend; and Dorothy Malone (who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance) as his nymphomaniac sister.

• 54 | DVD | (02/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A look behind the brightlights of the hottest nightclub ever! When Shane (Ryan Phillippe) joins the queue for New York City's premier nightspot little does he realise that he'll be plucked from the crowd by outrageous owner Steve Rubell (Mike Myers) get a job behind the bar and later become the nightspot's main attraction. Follow the rise and fall of this decadent empire where drink sex and drugs are just some of the vices on offer...

• Gone With The Wind | Blu Ray | (16/11/2009) from £16.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (35.39%)   |  RRP £22.99

  David O. Selznick's production of Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize winner Gone With The Wind features Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in their iconic roles as Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara! This sweeping Civil War-era romance won an impressive 10 Academy Awards (including Best Picture) and has thrilled audiences for more than a half century with its eternal love affair between handsome Rhett Butler (Gable) and his sassy headstrong heroine Scarlett O'Hara (Leigh).

• Revengers Tragedy | DVD | (24/11/2003) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An adaptation from maverick Alex Cox of Thomas Middleton's celebrated play from 1607 Revenger's Tragedy tells the story of a man whose wife is murdered on their wedding day and his desire to exact revenge on the murderer. In a post-apocalyptic Liverpool of the future Vindici (Christopher Eccleston) returns from a self-imposed exile to bring down those responsible for his wife's murder. While Vindici's family have fallen on hard times the murderer - known as the Duke (Derek Jaco

• The Passionate Stranger (Vintage Classics) | Blu Ray | (14/08/2023) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  THE PASSIONATE STRANGER (1957) centres around happily married house-wife Judith Wynter (Margaret Leighton) who keeps the fact she is a best-selling author of steamy romance novels, a closely guarded secret.As her husband Roger (Ralph Richardson), recovers from a serious illness, the couple's new driver Carlo (Carlo Justini) discovers the manuscript of Judith's latest novel and jumps to a rather unfortunate conclusion, making life in the Wynter household very complicated indeed! Boldly experimental in form and an entertaining riposte to the romance novel. Product Features An Out and Out Feminist: Muriel Box and The Passionate Stranger The Woman Behind the Picture: Archive interview with Muriel Box Part 1 Behind the Scenes stills gallery Original Trailer

• House Of Sand And Fog | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £7.09   |  Saving you £7.90 (111.43%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connolly star as two parties locked into a bitter tug-of-war over a house that has tragic consequences.